Ever lose your wedding band?

macneill · 03-08-06, 05:24 AM

I just did while on vacation with the wife.

Was doing a few laps in the sea when I stopped, stood up and voila, it was gone.

Must have been the sunblock or something.

Tried to open my eyes under water, but no dice.

Good thing it was a cheap ass titanium band.

Unfortunatley our deductible is more thant the band!

Fortunately the wife was cool with it.

T Y L E R · 03-08-06, 05:41 AM

ANy strangers shake hands with you before your dip?

Not a wedding band, but a girl and I bought matching custom silver bands with one off engravings done by a Vancouver artist. They were matching bands .. and I really loved them. Well on a drive out West to see the girl, I was probably at hour 21 of non-stop solo driving when I think I just tossed it in the trash I was so tired. I was in the habit of pulling the band forward on my finger after washing hands to dry under it before sliding it back on. I guess I never slid it back, and it got caught up in the paper towel, and into the trash it went .. the next morning we were in bed, and the second I awoke I knew it was gone! Uggh ..

Glad she's cool with it ...

Better do sumptin nice for her when you hit the slopes ..

TY

crushers · 03-08-06, 05:41 AM

nope, don't wear one.
too easy to remove for an affair, the ring around the heart is harder to loose...

beaufort-fj60 · 03-08-06, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by crushers

nope, don't wear one.
too easy to remove for an affair, the ring around the heart is harder to loose...

ohh how sweet, Barf

crushers · 03-08-06, 05:47 AM

LOL!!
cheaper too

beaufort-fj60 · 03-08-06, 05:48 AM

you must of gotten some this morning.

T Y L E R · 03-08-06, 05:54 AM

Woman want engagement rings right? So here is my twist on this ..

I am forthcoming now with the idea of exchanging engagement gifts. Something that occured to me about ten years ago. If I'm going to produce an engagment ring for a woman .. then I'd like a watch.

Part of the logic is to punctuate my being at odds with the whole idea, but looking at it from another angle a really nice watch like a Tag, for instance, (engraved with sumptin sweet) is something I would cherish for many, many years. As a man, I would hold it in the same regard as a woman and her engagement ring ..

I think my ex used to wear anywhere from $15K-20K in jewelry at any one time ..

TY

crushers · 03-08-06, 06:01 AM

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Originally Posted by T Y L E R

I think my ex used to wear anywhere from $15K-20K in jewelry at any one time ..

TY

i can understand why she is your "ex"...
damn that is a lot of cruiser parts...or a really nice vaction

T Y L E R · 03-08-06, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by crushers

i can understand why she is your "ex"...
damn that is a lot of cruiser parts...or a really nice vaction

Thankfully I didn't foot the entire bill .. and she makes in excess of 100K/yr.

Stone · 03-08-06, 06:46 AM

Once...while doing what else? Flyfishing.

Shook my hands dry after cleaning some salmon on the river, and the cold water had made a loose ring even looser...ring fell off while another jetboat was coming in, and the wash from his wake made the original wedding ring disappear forever. Luckily the fish stayed put.

stinkyfj60 · 03-08-06, 06:49 AM

I RARELY take mine off. And it doesnt just slip off because its three intertwined gold bands so it rolls off. Its not quite round anymore, and I am surprised it has taken the abuse on my hand that it has (working on trucks, cutting wood, working on bronze sculptures...)

Arleaux · 03-08-06, 07:05 AM

I'm on my 4th band in 12 years. I am constantly removing mine in pinch hazard & high voltage situations. Luckily, I'm not much on jewelry so I just buy the $30 dollar variety.
I dig the cheap ass titaniums. I keep two now, one for hot weather & one for cold.

cruiser4life · 03-08-06, 07:16 AM

I lost mine fly-fishing as well. Trying to resuscitate a big old rainbow in the current and was really focused on getting it to kick again. Watched it slowly swim away and kick hard about 10 feet from my hand. Picked up my hand to realize that my band was gone. I was out in the middle of a big river (for here), swift current emptying into a huge, deep pool. Spent a fruitless hour or so trying to find it, but no luck.

My ex (maybe that's part of it

) was pretty pissed like I had somehow purposefully been lax or that fishing was a higher priority than our marriage.

The latter is definitely the case now (as it probably was then)...

stayalert · 03-08-06, 07:37 AM

I take mine off to play hockey, use machines, still havn't lost it. I'll spare you the photos but around machinery, rotating parts etc..rings are a bad idea.

The picture I have somehwere is a picture of a hand with the ring finger flesh removed to the glistening white bone from where the ring was to the tip of the finger...apparnetly caught in a mill, drill press or lathe......

offroad_nomad · 03-08-06, 07:56 AM

No, but my wife's diamond engagement ring got destroyed during a diving vacation on Bonaire. We placed our valuables in the condo wall safe. Over the following 10 days somehow her engagement ring worked its way around the safe each time we got our passports to cash traveler's checks and stuff. One morning I tried to open the safe and the door resisted opening. Strange, I thought, it has never done this and with a little force I was able to open it up.

Fast forward to the morning we are leaving for the airport and we retreive our valuables from the safe. That resistance in opening the door was my wife's engagement ring stuck in the safe door hinge and when I forced it open, I crushed the ring.

Our insurance covered the ring and we replaced it with a larger and nicer diamond ring.

re_guderian · 03-08-06, 08:23 AM

First time on my honeymoon. Had never worn jewelry before, not even a watch, so I was constantly taking it on and off. While driving, I dropped it into the steering column of my truck. Had to take the whole thing apart to get it. Next time was on a business trip. I was sick, and accidentally left it in the hotel room.

That was hard to live down. Lost another one a few years ago, and my wife got me a nice engraved one. Now it stays safe and sound in my armoire...

mot · 03-08-06, 08:27 AM

I used to wear mine while living in the US, but since moving to Japan I haven't worn it, partially I have lost so much weight that it just slips off of my finger.

PHBeerman · 03-08-06, 08:28 AM

13 years, and I have never lost it. It probably has not been off of my finger for a total of 24 hours in all of that time.

cruiser4life · 03-08-06, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by re_guderian

Next time was on a business trip. I was sick, and accidentally left it in the hotel room.

That was hard to live down.

No doubt, that sounds like it would have been tough to work out of for sure!!!

wesintl · 03-08-06, 09:33 AM

I don't wear mine either. I gave it a heart felt try to wear it but all i ever did was play with it. I would drop it and it's rolled under so many tables I don't wear it. It's hard to loose sitting in the medicine cabinet. She's not real happy about it but has learned to live with it. I do try to put it on for special occasions.

We only insure her's